Dirt Track Racing

by Atari

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003XAK9
• Item model number: 04-20355
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,638 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Amazon.com Product Description

With speed in the straightaways and grip on the curves, you jockey for position in the heat of the pack. Riding the groove, you white-knuckle the last turn and slingshot past the leader toward the flying checkered flag. This is the world's first authentic dirt-track racing game--from qualification to championship. From the fender-bending, dog-eat-dog world of pure stock, to the souped-up production-stock racing machines and fast-as-lightning, loud-as-thunder, big-money, late-model series, this is racing on the edge. Aggressive driving, accumulated prize money, and smart vehicle and upgrade purchases propel you to the next class. Get your car in gear, or get off the track.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of a Kind!, December 30, 1999

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"jab11" (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirt Track Racing (CD-ROM)

Once again, GT Interactive has produced a game unlike any other. This game takes racing to a new level. Anyone who has experienced dirt track racing first hand will appreciate the job done by GT to put out a game like this. Not only does this game have it all, it has it all at the low price that has become synonomous with GT Interactive games. Players can choose from stock, pro stock, and late model cars as well as a large variety of tracks from the simple oval to the challenging figure 8. Accumulate money from wins to buy new parts for your car and make your way through the season to become champion. Just another great product put out by the game developers at GT Interactive

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Awesome, July 18, 2000

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Brodie Jones (Auckland New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirt Track Racing (CD-ROM)

This is surely the second best driving sim to Grand Prix Legends. Forget the fact that this game takes place only on Ovals and Dirt. This is sooooo much fun. With outstanding (and fast) graphics and a very realistic driving model this game will have you staying up till the small hours of the morning regularly. The sensation of speed is brilliant but probably even better is the way the game puts you right in the middle of up to 15 other cars so realistically. The AI is great. You run a little hot into the turns and somebody is sure to slip up the inside. Each race is different. Sometimes one driver clears out. Other times, 6 or 7 cars battle for the lead for the whole race. The cars handling is superb. You can steer the car with the throttle and with (hopefully) just the right amount of opposite lock balance the car through the turns. Just like the real thing! If you like sliding a rear wheel drive car you will love this game.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Finest Racing Sim Ever..., October 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Dirt Track Racing (CD-ROM)

Yes it is. Ratbag Games made Powerslide the most fun, but Dirt Track Racing takes the joy of PC gaming to a new level. The Program is bulletproof, airtight and fast. FAST! Even on a very modest PC or 3D card is generates very smooth frame rates at very high resolutions. The learning curve for enjoyment is tiny. Yet there is depth enough with the different cars, tours, tracks, and set-ups that you can still be improving your level of play for months of gaming.

The game can be played enjoyably with any quality joystick but with a wheel and pedal combo this really shines. But the real joy is the Best use of Force Feedback in any sim. In most racing games FF is an annoyance... a distraction. In the otherwise great Midtown Madness games the FF is 'canned' effects that make the wheel shake when you hit things. OK. In DTR and also Powerslide, the FF is generated by the same physics engine that drives the car. It HELPS you feel the track, the surface, the turns and other cars. Since the FF correspondes to what is actually happening it ADDS to the emmersion rather than just making your knuckles numb.

The damage modelling rewards racing but allows the demolition style of cornering if you can afford to pay for the repairs! The tracks seem similar at first but with greater experience you come to see that they are all very unique. The different banking, length, layout and surface make these tracks totally individual and challenging. I have even stopped off in my travels to look at the REAL tracks depicted. At Paris, Texas for instance the game depicts hills in the backround. It is actually fairly flat but the TRACK is exactly right. I mean EXACTLY.

And how can you go wrong spending ... for this level of quality? And Now you can find the still amazing Powerslide for ... These two games alone fully justify buying a ... expensive wheel and pedal and top drawer video card. But they can also be a boatload of fun on a cheap setup and together cost half of one inferior game.

Finally, though the 'Difference Engine II' make use of excellent textures and detailed models and looks great as is... Full Screen Anti Aliasing makes this approach photo realsim. I'm not trying to sell 3dfx products here... if you can make FSAA work in Direct3D on your GeForce or Radeon card you're in for a rare treat. If I were king of a video card company I'd have this baby bundled in every product I sell. Buy it, play it until your neck hurts from leaning over in the turns, and wait for DTR Sprint Cars!